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The ORBX Southern Alaska scenery for FSX and P3D is now available. The title is a bit of a misnomer as the product includes the southern Yukon and a chunk of northwest British Columbia as well. Click here for details and download link. Enjoy!

Holger notes: “if you haven’t had a look at the latest edition of Sim Pilot Magazine yet you might want to do that. It includes a guided tour of several interesting locations in the Glacier Bay v2 coverage area:

Glacier Bay v2 is a complete replacement of the default FS2004 landscape and scenery of more than 90,000 square kilometers (36,000 sq miles) of Southeast Alaska and adjacent areas of Yukon and British Columbia. Landscape enhancements include high-resolution terrain mesh, detailed shorelines, rivers, lakes, and glaciers, and accurate land cover data with custom seasonal ground textures. Inland water bodies can be made to “freeze over” via an on/off switch. Other landmarks include the settlements of Juneau, Haines, Skagway, Yakutat, Atlin, and Carcross as well as road and railroad networks, cabins, lodges, and lighthouses. We modeled or enhanced 16 main airfields (plus one fictitious airstrip), 20 unlisted airstrips, 16 seaplane bases, and seven heliports. We’ve also included AI ship traffic in various locations as well as optional flightplans for GA and floatplane AI traffic. Glacier Bay v2 is fully compatible with other third-party add-ons, including terrain mesh (FSGlobal, FS Genesis, etc.), ground textures (Ground Environment, BEV, FScene, etc.), and landscape enhancements (Ultimate Terrain Canada/Alaska, Misty Fjords, Tongass Fjords, Freight Dogs). A configurator panel (requires .Net Framework!) allows users to set compatibility options and to choose levels of scenery detail. We provide an autoinstaller and detailed documentation with a sectional map of the coverage area and a list of weblinks to real-world information. For feedback and questions, please visit the Glacier Bay v2 support forum at http://forums.fsaddon.eu/viewforum.php?f=10. This project is a collaboration of nine FS developers from Germany, Austria, USA, and Canada, logging more than 1000 hours of work over the past 14 months. We acknowledge the kind support of FSAddon.com. However, this project is independent of any commercial product. Enjoy!

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With the completion of the night textures and the tying up of a few dozen loose ends, I’ve released Skagway to Holger for beta 2. There are still a few minor bugs. Here’s some screenshots.

Holger and I independently caught one FS9 bug we’d never noticed before: the MS generic storage tank model we used has a transparent alpha channel, and the assigned area of the night texture is black. Net result: they disappear at night! This would have been true for some of the tanks on the side of Burnaby Mountain in Vancouver+ Part 1 as well. Anyhow, the proposed fix will patch FS9 for everyone. (BTW MS fixed this in FSX)

EDIT: Here’s a hi-res bonus shot of looking off to the right on final approach on 02.